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i'm not allowed to give him. we have to, to fight this a, do the best of the cast for the, for the to, to off all the chief of a film about commitment and hope about visions and the people behind the verb and catastrophe. climate change starts july 13th on dw, the this is the, the news aisha coming up to date. she long cause and there, but i'm going crisis. or, you know, since protest as full as the change of government, really political change remains conducive. and poverty has only increased what day too long cause people followed revenue from achieve. and where is the country headed? plus sure. lancaster plastics,

problem why the government is hoping defending some types of single use plastic. we have been saved the lives of wines, animals the. the i'm british manager, welcome to the the news aisha. glad you can join us as sherlock, our struggles to recover from its worst economic crisis in decades. it's people are leaving for better opportunities abroad. government figure suggest some a 122000 people have left the country to made this. yeah. the same number that left the country in own of 2021. faced with rising prices and growing poverty, the reasons for leaving are quite evident, lentils and rice is all this couple can afford, and they often have to skip meals through long cubs. chronic economic crisis has

hit them hard for diet account and make them put right on sees over the last year. the situation has become more difficult would the monday night last year we had money, but no goods. now there are goods, we don't have the money to see of the price of goods has increased significantly compared to last year. we are going to got rid of that address family lives in a working class area of colombo. the city life has become an affordable the government has removed subsidies on the utilities, doubling the water and electricity bills. put it on the home is also them due to leaks from the water line. but municipal authorities have no funds left to fix it. yet, the couple of the biggest building is expensive. medicines that are has chronic as pump and public hospitals used to provide free medicines. but the government program has now been scrapped. now that think that out of an inhaler,

it costs around $2500.00 rupees. so i didn't buy him one because we don't have enough money to punch it up in it. i mean, we used to get medicines for free because now they chose to buy from the pharmacy. only small amount of medicines are available for free loss. due inflation, lack of basic necessities, i'm crippling international debt to good nation vide protest. the former president go to biology book, so was forced to flee the country he has since we're doing done to type security, but things have worse. and in the meantime, for ordinarily people, roger punctual success load, i'm going to become a single, is hoping to get the economy back on track with an i am a fill out what $2900000000.00. the program and pull just tough measures, increase taxes, removal of subsidies, all in all the mobility for citizens. if you have combating the 2022, a peer me,

at least as of availability of essentially was like for any electricity, mcmillion park leave, you look at the public, the numbers. it has a we have added 4000000 new people below the policy, the government officials spinning the hopes on the i m f program and she long caused crisis into 2 full years and joining me now for most of the she liked him, cap colombo is human rights activist, i'm because that's good enough and she's also got and the chairperson of the independent drunk making organization. the need them to tell them, trust i'm pick up a year on from the storming of the presidential palace. quantavia dodge bucks sized back in the country. prices of a central's remain high and debt relief is a work in progress. what history long cuz people pile revenue from the chief as

well. what it has achieved is that uh 2nd thing is uh different and certain things still remain the same. so what we see different uh the, uh, we don't have the electricity cups anymore. we don't have the, uh, the fuel cues. there is the, i missed the package that has come. and we just being reported bad, you know, inflation has come down, its drilled threats and generally 4 point one percent where food items are concerned. so those are things that people could say and they all seem a lot straight stability. but at the same time, what they do see is that the government is pretty much the same that we had a, even during the adult people struggle with the article layer. and we have a different president, but it is the same members, which means you do still have the problems with governance. you do have a corruption and you have the government attempting to cost repressive laws like

the anti terrorism bill. like the broad costing authority bill, which seemed a tailored to stifle dissent, to stifle political activity and criticism of the government and the massive security structure which exists. and they've said that they are going to, as part of downsizing as part of this, i'm f restructuring, etc. that they do plan to downsize all the costs right? size the military. but we don't see that in practice yet. and the large of the, the, the surveillance on the harassment died. we did about it even yesterday yet. and i have the incident where the military, it decides as powers that he does not have to try to money to surveillance, harass civilians and stifle detect. so let's talk about the political part of things that i don't even think of the current president. if you make it sound like the government under him is much the same as it was under good top budget bucks. so

we'll stop of last. yeah, absolutely. it is very much the same, is the same people from the top here, roger boxes, but it goes by team because it was, they who bought it in parliament to electron. you'll become a thing i had president because he wasn't voted in by the public according to the constitution. off of the president resign. he was voted in by go down there raj boxes body, which means he's to behold into them just yesterday. the last couple of days, again, we've seen news reports that they planned to give them up books, positions and maybe ministerial portfolios to present some good top is a large boxes party. so it's pretty much, you know, it's business as usual in, in some way. it's going to be a $100.00. i was blame for. they cannot make prices that you're not confounding, sent in and not just him or other members of his family. they were also in government including mine, that i was about to his brother. is there any sense of accountability, does it appear that to gustavo dodge of bucks?

so and the government, the previous government, at least officially, we'd be held to task. well, let me give you an example of it. that is a parliamentary select committee that has been established. you look into the comic prices, the causes of economic crisis, and the persons who are members of this committee, or people from mainly from their history lock up, or there's an impairment of which is good, that they're raj boxes, party, and we do see a nama arrived at bucks this time, the former president mind the rajah fox and also increasingly coming into the publics here. we see them trying to re establish themselves and enabled by president. don't know if it commerce think i so hence, accountability i would say is nearly a pipe dream. you know, i remember talking to last around the time that these protests were cutting. and i remember us discussing a, this mood amongst the protest as it please. the data is perhaps

a faster real shot at some political change from everything that seemed talked about right now. it appears that political change is way off. so that'd be the one that if she loved kyra tall, is ready for political change. i think she was definitely getting ready for political change and but the people struggle did it made at least the 2nd section of the population, a bit more politically aware. it made them realize that they have also civic duties, not just rights. it made them hordes that elected representatives of calling to both. so we do have a slight awareness raising among certain parts of the population, particularly the young and people are tired of it. very tired of it, exhausted, actually because of also it'd be the, the bug is that the battery due to the pin on the prices. so they are they, are they do mind change? i think they do one change even if they're not out on the roads because they're

exhausted. merely trying to make ends meet. but everyone does one change. but we do not seem to have viable political alternate to where you have to leave at the time being the thank you so much for bringing us all that a context on because that's good enough. and joining us from colombo and also the jefferson of the independent crowd making organizer from the need them different you have them across. thanks so much on the go thank you. the besides the economic and political of christ history long is also dealing with a plastics problem. the convenience of single use plastic is now proving deadly for the countries phone a. according to some estimates at least 20 elephants, for instance, have died from ingesting plastic. but it doesn't just stop at them. yeah. and otherwise that it moves to audit risk. now the government is considering

a band on 7 types of things and use plastic. the hope is the speed go some way to watch preserving through long test phone a. of these elephants are sadly not picky eaters. over the past decade, she long can officials say around 20 elephants have died from eating plastic, refuse those deaths have prompted the government to once again crack down on the countries plastic problem. so you will know that 3 long guys, one know pilot conference for the board for re so you're not going use lot of plastic items. if you look at the numbers. uh, $20000000.00 shopping bags are being used per day. and 10000000 people have been used for the almost own item going design for a new band on several single used plastic items will soon go into effect. but previous laws have made little difference. manufacturers have openly floated

a ban on plastic bags. of course we re read them a payment again, but of course by reading we cannot the solve the issue. it's hard for many sri lumpkins to kicks their plastic addiction. it's cheap and convenient, but also dangerous to animals and humans, bags and bottles clogged waterways and drains health authorities, blaine plastic waste for surgeons, and a fever spread by mosquitoes who breed in stagnant water. but one company is working to get at least the plastic bottles out of the waste stream. eco spindles recycles to the bottles into plastic yarn repercussions into clothing for top international brands. and the 2019 world cup jersey for this re lumpkin cricket team. so we have to leave 10 bottles. i'll be news to make a decent environmental as a plot, the new plastic fans,

let's say cleaning up sri long as plastic mess remains largely few tile. unless the government gets serious about punish thing, those to break the rules. and that's about does it for today, it is most stories from the region on our website dot com, forward slash asia, and as ever you can for us on facebook and twitter feed back again at the same time tomorrow. we'll see you then, to back the we are looking for the entertainment industry. why do you think that following content should be related in our nation coming on? you're not the last page you have to pay for your own was interested in your own culture and we spend one value on ours. what is the we forward convince on

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